Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Except for this one disagreement, Galbraith and Bundy concurred in principle with Stevenson's suggestions for meeting domestic demands for schools and roads and for improving our leadership in foreign affairs. Stevenson advocated meeting the challenge of recent Russian advances on all fronts rather than "overreacting to it" in the missile field...
...When six Russian women medical scientists touring the U.S. met the press in Washington last week, they offered a nose-wrinkling bit of news. Said Dr. Antonina Shubladze of Moscow's Institute of Virology: the Russians have an effective treatment for Asian influenza, to be taken like snuff. The nonprescription remedy costs one ruble (officially 25?) for a three-day supply, but only one sniff is needed if the flu victim takes it promptly the day he begins to ache and sniffle. Explained Dr. Shubladze: the influenza virus is inoculated into horses, which are later bled. Serum from their...
...seasonal curtain raiser was its first production in 36 years of Tchaikovsky's faded period piece, Eugene Onegin. At the end of the second act, the character known as Lenski sings one of the most meltingly popular tenor arias in Russian opera ("Oh where have flown my days of springtime?"), turns to face Onegin in a duel and is promptly shot dead. At the Met last week, Tenor Richard Tucker, as Lenski, was at the top of his luminous form; Baritone George London, etched against a handsomely stark stage set, was magnificently arrogant as Onegin. The only trouble...
...most gifted composers, but that has not kept Soviet politicians from pounding him like a bass drum. In the '30s and '40s Communist officials let him have it fortissimo for writing music that failed to trace a melodic line straight to the heart of the average Russian. Composer Shostakovich has long since recanted his sins and been allowed once again to sing for his supper. The song he sang last week, his brand-new Eleventh Symphony, was supposed to help celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Actually, it was dedicated not to the big (1917) Bolshevik...
...added theaters to his chain, Russian-born L. B. Mayer soon ran out of his kind of films. In 1918 he opened a studio to supply his own demands. Six years later, prodded by Theater Owner Marcus Loew, he merged his two companies with Producer Sam Goldwyn's studios to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The ex-junkman confidently made himself production chief. With Irving Thalberg, his brilliant assistant (and the model for F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon), Mayer set about remaking the motion-picture industry...